freebsd stable - Mar 2020 - New Xorg - different key-codes

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 02:48:56PM +0100, Michael Gmelin
wrote:
> ???
> >> On 11. Mar 2020, at 10:29, Mark Martinec
> >> <Mark.Martinec+freebsd at ijs.si> wrote:
> > ???
> >> 
> >>> I just updated my laptop from source, and somewhere along the
way
> >>> the key-codes Xorg sees changed.
> >> Indeed.  This doesn't just affect -CURRENT: it happened to me
on
> >> -STABLE last week, so I'm copying that list too.
> > 
> > And a "Down" key now opens and closes a KDE
"Application Launcher",
> > alternatively with its original function (which makes editing a
> > frustration).
> > 
> >  https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244354
> > 
> > 
> 
> This *might* help you:
> 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2020-February/025046.html
> 
> (Short version: run setxkbmap in ~/.xinitrc, e.g.,
> setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de)
Will running that command return my key mappings back to what they use to be?



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Bob Willcox wrote in
<20200311214930.GC5435 at rancor.immure.com>:
 |On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 02:48:56PM +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
 |>>> On 11. Mar 2020, at 10:29, Mark Martinec
 |>>> <Mark.Martinec+freebsd at ijs.si> wrote:
 ...
 |>>>> I just updated my laptop from source, and somewhere along the
way
 |>>>> the key-codes Xorg sees changed.
 ...
 |> This *might* help you:
 |> 
 |> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2020-February/025046.html
 |> 
 |> (Short version: run setxkbmap in ~/.xinitrc, e.g.,
 |> setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de)
 |
 |Will running that command return my key mappings back to what they \
 |use to be?

I for one am totally baffled that you all "just can go".
My ~/.xinitrc is (in parts)

  if command -v setxkbmap >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     if [ -f ~/.${HOSTNAME}.xkbmap ]; then
        setxkbmap `cat ~/.${HOSTNAME}.xkbmap`
     elif [ -f ~/.xkbmap ]; then
        setxkbmap `cat ~/.xkbmap`
     fi
  fi
  if command -v xmodmap >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     [ -f ~/.xmodmaprc ] && xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc
     [ -f ~/.${HOSTNAME}.xmodmaprc ] && xmodmap ~/.${HOSTNAME}.xmodmaprc
  fi

  if command -v xrdb >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     [ -f ~/.Xdefaults ] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
     [ -f ~/.${HOSTNAME}.Xdefaults ] && xrdb -merge
~/.${HOSTNAME}.Xdefaults
  fi

and i (i think ever) had to _have_ those (former being
'de(nodeadkeys)', the middle one too long to paste, but also works
around the "g" key of that Lenovo notebook ever since that stopped
working).

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

Hi,

This command sets the keyboard layout. You are supposed to set the keyboard 
layout which matches the physical layout of the hardware. This hadn't 
changed, it's a fundamental part of X11 since I know it (X11 6.5) and even 
before...

For those which had an explicit setting in xorg.conf (like me) but switched 
now to nothing or the "match" snippets for mouse or kbd: you can
specify
this already in the config. Here is what I use:
---snip---
Donnerstag, 12. M?rz 2020, 10:21:40
{1} <FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT> [video:/]
(201) root at ttypts/1 # cat /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/kbd.conf Section 
"InputClass"
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    MatchIsKeyboard "on"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Driver "libinput"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "de"
    Option "XkbRules" "evdev"
EndSection


Donnerstag, 12. M?rz 2020, 10:22:05
{0} <FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT> [video:/]
(202) root at ttypts/1 # cat /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/mouse.conf
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    MatchIsPointer "on"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Driver "libinput"
# Option "Protocol" "auto"
# Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
---snip---

Note, I use this in sysctl.conf:
---snip---
# enable hardware devices in evdev
kern.evdev.rcpt_mask=12
---snip---

When I did that, I just validated that I was able to login to KDE (the 
particular X11 is feeding a home-cinema setup and is not used often, I just 
decided to update it as long as I remembered there was a change to xorg 
with a config impact). I didn't check any up/down/umlauts, I just plain 
assumed it works (and I still assume it does). The above is just meant to 
provide some info how to make it work globally instead of having a setting 
in each local startup per user.

Bye,
Alexander.

--
Send from a mobile device, please forgive brevity and misspellings.

Am 11. M?rz 2020 23:07:55 schrieb Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 02:48:56PM +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>> ???
>> >> On 11. Mar 2020, at 10:29, Mark Martinec
>> >> <Mark.Martinec+freebsd at ijs.si> wrote:
>> > ???
>> >>
>> >>> I just updated my laptop from source, and somewhere along
the way
>> >>> the key-codes Xorg sees changed.
>> >> Indeed.  This doesn't just affect -CURRENT: it happened to
me on
>> >> -STABLE last week, so I'm copying that list too.
>> >
>> > And a "Down" key now opens and closes a KDE
"Application Launcher",
>> > alternatively with its original function (which makes editing a
>> > frustration).
>> >
>> >  https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244354
>> >
>> >
>>
>> This *might* help you:
>>
>>
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2020-February/025046.html
>>
>> (Short version: run setxkbmap in ~/.xinitrc, e.g.,
>> setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de)
>
> Will running that command return my key mappings back to what they use to
be?
>
>
>
> --
> Bob Willcox    | It's possible that the whole purpose of your life is
to
> bob at immure.com | serve as a warning to others.
> Austin, TX     |
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